So on Friday (or Thursday--I forget) I bowed out of the SillyCS
mailing list--a list I helped to start back in 1996 or so when we
were all happy Computer Science majors at Boston College. People
have approached me as to why I did such a thing. I just became less
and less interested and it was less and less fun for me.

I think part of the problem was that the SillyCS went one way but
I wanted it to go another. Case in point--it was SillyCS
not SillySPORTS.

Anyhow, for nostalgic reasons, I post the following excerpts of the
SillyCS mythos from way back in the day: